Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
...conducted on mice found that the hormone prolactin encourages the spontaneous production of myelin, the fatty substance that coats nerve cells and plays a critical role in transmitting messages in the central nervous system. A collaboration between the laboratories of Drs. Samuel Weiss and V. Wee Yong of the Ho...Nottingham scientist fights climate change
... of the Royal Societys Labs to Riches event, which encourages innovation in science and technology and promotes its commercial application. Dr Chen, of The University of Nottinghams School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, said: "It is a great honour for me to receive this prestigious award f...Educators in Georgia and Maryland earn top 2006 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...inority students practical research experience and encourages them to pursue graduate education. Nearly 250 students have participated so far and surveys show that nearly 90 percent of them have either completed a graduate degree, enrolled in a graduate program, or plan to do so within the next two years. May a...Major link in brain-obesity puzzle found
...eague Christin Carter-Su, Ph.D., showed that SH2B1 encourages the action and production of JAK2, unlike two othe...fat cells, the authors suspect that fat-cell SH2B1 encourages the storing of fat. When they tested this theory, they found that SH2B1 appeared to help mouse embry...NIH gives PITT $13 million grant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease research
...y Oriented Research (SCCOR) in COPD. Such a center encourages basic science research findings to be directed more rapidly toward clinical problems. Frank C. Sciurba, M.D., is principal investigator of the SCCOR grant, which entails three unique projects and three resource cores to support the research. Dr. Sc...Canada's new government launches ecoEnergy technology initiative
...hange for real results. "Canada's New Government encourages industry and the provinces to further invest in science and technology to deliver real results for the production of clean energy," said Minister Lunn. The new Initiative is a focused, integrated approach built on key priorities that include carbo...Cloudy apple juice four times healthier than clear
...e health benefits is extra exciting and definitely encourages us to use them." Clear juice far outsells cloudy juice because of the perception by consumers that is purer. But it is the process of clarification that removes the beneficial compounds locked away in the apple pulp. Retailers also tend to favour cl...Researchers urge monitoring of bone health during chemotherapy
...nts susceptible to infection. "This growth factor encourages bone breakdown, and any therapy that decreases bone density could potentially enhance tumor growth in bone," says senior author Katherine Weilbaecher, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology. "But there are things tha...BioMed Central launches BMC Systems Biology, a new open access journal
...y reader with Internet access. BMC Systems Biology encourages use of the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) and, like all of the BMC-series, makes XML of all published articles freely available to download for data and text-mining. Dr Theodora Bloom, BioMed Central's Editorial Director for Biology, said o...New edition of landmark textbook incorporates contemporary genome-based view of biology
...s, and is designed for inquiry-based learning. It encourages students to think about the questions facing biologists in the laboratory, and consistently links fundamental concepts to the original experiments that have defined our understanding of DNA. Written in a conversational style, the first 13 chapters p...NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
...ence Mission Directorate Applied Sciences Program, encourages student teams to investigate the use of NASA science research results and observations relevant to societal concerns and perform advanced, analytical experiments demonstrating their contribution to national policy and decision-making. Researchers s...ResearchChannel awards matching funds for video production
...ver Matching Funds Production Awards Program which encourages the creation of productions that further public awareness of research addressing important and wide-ranging issues. "We received a wealth of terrific proposals from a diverse group of institutions," said Amy Philipson, ResearchChannel executive dir...The abortion pill compound prevents breast tumor growth
...ceptive. UCI researchers found that progesterone encourages the development of cancer when the mutated BRCA-1 is present because it speeds up the division of cells. Mifepristone was found to block a binding process that is necessary for progesterone to cause the cell division. Previous studies conducted by ...TIGER workshop highlights project results
...re-operational and operational. The research stage encourages water authorities in Africa to undertake research initiatives in the field of water and resource management and supports them with Earth observation (EO) data, training and tools. Results for the research stage were presented for the first time at th...Fake pesticides threaten food safety
...ket, compared to 5-7% in the EU. 'The CPA actively encourages enforcements to prevent illegal imports. We recommend that farmers buy pesticides from a reliable source. CPA members sign a code of practice,' he says. The EU crop protection market is worth 7.5bn. Counterfeits cost the EU between 21m and 30m in l...Institute for OneWorld Health awarded $46 million grant to combat diarrheal disease
...h and its partners, and hope their innovative work encourages others to take action." OneWorld Health is assembling a portfolio of product candidates to address various aspects of secretory diarrheal diseases, with a special focus on treatments for young infants and children. The iOWH's approach to anti-diar...ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays
...a geochemist to net a NIH grant. National Center encourages alternative studies The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH was established in 1998 for just this kind of study. One of the 27 Institutes making up NIH, the Center funds scientific research and technologies that examin...High PSA velocity linked with low survival rates
...udy's findings. "As it is," he writes, "this study encourages optimism about the value of PSA velocity in predicting outcomes for prostate cancer, although some of the optimism about the value of PSA velocity in predicting outcomes for prostate cancer may be unwarranted due to [certain] study insufficiencies."...Earliest fungi may have found multiple solutions to propagation on land, new study infers
...al Science Foundation under a special program that encourages large scientific collaborations to address major scientific questions related to the origins of species. "Results from the team's research suggest new, hypothesized relationships in which fungi called chytridiomycetes, which have self-propelling fl...